Britain declared the FMD crisis over

Introduction: the British government announced at midnight on the 14th that after 11 months of suffering from the FMD crisis, the FMD has been completely eliminated in the UK At midnight on the 14th, the UK's Ministry of environment, food and Rural Affairs announced that one of the places where the outbreak was first detected in February last year - Northumberland County - had eliminated foot-and-mouth disease, so far, the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the UK has completely ended The UK government says the criteria for eliminating FMD is that no new cases have been found in three months and that the results of the epidemic tests on livestock have been negative Since the outbreak of FMD crisis, 2030 cases have been found in the UK, and the last case was found on September 30, 2001 More than 4 million livestock were slaughtered, and the government even used the military to help slaughter and bury them It is estimated that the cost of the UK government to control FMD may be as high as US $5 billion In addition to the losses suffered by many farmers, Britain's tourism industry has also been hit hard After the government officially announced the elimination of foot-and-mouth disease, the restrictions on the movement of livestock will be gradually abolished, and the free trade of livestock nationwide will be resumed soon The EU's export ban on British meat and dairy products has not been completely lifted The next task of the British government is to persuade the European Commission that the UK has completely eliminated foot-and-mouth disease (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: